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Ph.D. Candidate | History of Early Modern Science & Technology, Art & Material Culture | Columbia University, NYC |📍Nuremberg https://tinyurl.com/4ynbth3x Screws 🔩 & the assemblage of gold- and silversmithing art in the early modern German-speaking lands

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Seán Thomas Kane @sthosdkane.bsky.social · 11h

Does anyone have recommendations on sources concerning South Atlantic ocean currents and navigational routes in the 16th century? I see a lot of maps showing how Europeans got to Brazil, but not the return voyage. #earlymodern #histsci #skystorians

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 15h

I couldn't agree more :)

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 15h

Ha! Funny!
Do they/you know when that was added? I wondered if it was a period addition or a more recent one. Can you imagine just carving that in?!

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Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 16h

So happy to see this book in print! This project has been such a pleasure

La Sfera / The Globe: Cosmology, Science, and Geography by Gregorio Dati, Carrie Benes (Editor), Laura Ingallinella (Editor): Compare Prices on New & Used Copies | ISBN: 9781599104812 - Alibris share.google/is0A9ix9tp27...

La Sfera / The Globe: Cosmology, Science, and Geography in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean

Dati's La sfera/The Globe presents an Italian/English edition of this treatise on geography, cosmology, astronomy, and astrology, composed in the 1420s in Florence. Illustrated by dozens of color ex...

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 15h

On a different note, I had to think of you and the astrolabe we looked at here when I was in Dresden and found another "annotation" on a sixteenth-century clock (reminding me of the '1542' inscribed in the astrolabe).

Close up of a sixteenth-century clock, showing the inscription 'Venus' underneath the clock face.

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 15h

Yes, it felt like walking through a fantasy world.

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 15h

Yes! I also haven't seen that one. Though I did find a copy of the catalog for only €14, after having worked with scans of it for years. Florian Abe's essay certainly hints at that exhibition with his title: "Nürnberg und Jerusalem —zwischen Quasi Centrum Europae und Nabel der Welt".

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 17h

Doesn't it? I am always amazed to see how fog can put a land- or cityscape into an entirely different light.

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 18h

The lidded cup in the back (looking remarkably similar to the columbine cups I’ve been looking at recently)!

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 19h

The fog on the other side of the church was so thick that my phone could only make grainy pictures, making it look like I traveled back in time and took a picture of the St. Sebaldus in the 1980s. It looks majestic! 🤍

The St. Sebaldus church in Nuremberg, covered in fog. Photo taken by me on October 14, 2025.

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 23h

But nothing beats the magic of Nuremberg in all its early-morning snow-covered winter glory ❄️ 🤍

A couple of early modern buildings in Nuremberg covered in snow. Photo taken by me in 2023

An early modern bridge in Nuremberg covered in snow. Photo taken by me in 2023

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 1d

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 1d

If you're ever in the area again, and want to grab a coffee, let me know. I'd be curious to learn how a medievalist perceives the city.

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 1d

The fog is so thick, you cannot even see the castle anymore, usually towering in the distance.

The same street in Nuremberg as shown in the previous picture, except now you can see the castle in the far background

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 1d

Fog-covered Nuremberg on early-morning fall days looks unreal 🍂

The St. Sebaldus church in Nuremberg covered in fog with two trees in front of it whose leaves show a gamut of fall colors, from dark green to yellow, orange, and red.

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 1d

Proficiat!

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t say that I am, no.

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing this makes me wonder why so many scholars tell me early modern Germany is less or not interesting for the history of art (=craft), and that I should focus on the early modern Low Countries or Britain instead. I’ll gladly marshall this exhibit to show why I won’t—ever. Not even if you paid me.

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 1d

*durch alle Land

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 1d

Ha! What a coincidence. I just read an essay in a catalogue of a different exhibition from several years ago that discusses precisely this notion of "Tand" and the expression "Nürnberger Tand geht in aller Land".

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Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social · 1d

FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, Alexander Marr (Cambridge) will speak on “Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys,” IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person IHR Wolfson Rm NB02 and online, 5:30 London time. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 1d

Not displayed separately, alas (they rarely ever are). Though I did manage to spot some in the goldsmithing objects, by hanging upside down, bending over backwards, sitting on the floor, and using reflections and small mirrors 🙃

The underside of a goldsmithing object shaped in the form of a ship, showing the screws with which it is assembled.

The bottom of an early modern goldsmithing object, photographed through a small mirror, showing a screw (encircled in red).

A close up of the foot/stand of an early modern globe made from gilded brass, showing the screws encircled in red (the two screws at the center may also be pins, though the two holes on the other side of the object seem to be threaded).

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 1d

Haha, yes!

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 1d

Haha, not at all!

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 1d

Note the alt text :)

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